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EDUCATION AND 
CO-OPERATION 

IN 

CINCINNATI 




A Directory of the Educational Institutions, City 
Departments, and Public and Private Institu- 
tions of Cincinnati, With Their Methods 
of Co-operation in Training Men and 
Women for Service 



L903 

'OdsCs 



D. of D. 
DEC F~ 1915 




THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 

A Municipal University Devoted to the Advance- 
ment of Liberal and Technical Learning and to the 
Service of the City and the People of Cincinnati. 

The University comprises the following 
departments : 

McMicken College of Liberal oct. 15, 1915 

Arts, with Evening Classes 1511 

College for Teachers 428 

Graduate School 145 

College of Engineering 477 

College of Medicine 91 

College of Commerce 198 

School of Household Arts 43 

iVstronomical Observatory, Library, 
Gymnasium and Athletic Field 

Gross Total 2893 

Twice Counted 349 

Net Total 2544 

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McMICKEN COLLEGE OF LIBERAL 
ARTS 

The faculty consists of seventeen pro- 
fessors, six associate professors, fourteen 
assistant professors and twenty-five in- 
structors. 

Tuition is free to regular students who 
are residents of Cincinnati. 




DRIVEWAY IN FRONT OF McMICKEN HALL 

This College is open both day and 
evening in order that all classes of citizens 
may have the opportunity to obtain a 
college education. External courses are 
given for the benefit of teachers and audi- 
tors in the branch libraries and high 
schools in various parts of the city. 

This College co-operates with the city 
in the following ways: 



The Department of Biology assists in 
directing school gardens in the public 
schools, co-operates with the Zoological 
Garden, and conducts a bird reserve. 
The Department of Social Science co- 
operates with the Union Bethel, Asso- 
ciated Charities. Anti-Tuberculosis League 
and the City Hospital. The Department 
of Political vScience conducts a Municipal 
Reference Bureau in the city hall in co- 
operation with the city council. The 
Bureau collects and supplies information 
for the use of council and city officials. 
The Department of Psychology directs a 
psychological clinic, trains school psy- 
chologists, and tests mentally deficient 
children by request of their parents and 
teachers; it co-operates with the princi- 
pals, medical inspectors and teachers in 
the schools. 

COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS 

The faculty consists of eight professors, 
one associate professor, seven assistant 
professors and five instructors. 

Tuition is free to residents of Cincinnati 
and to teachers in the Cincinnati public 
schools. 

The College for Teachers, under the 
joint management of the University and 
the Board of Education, trains teachers 
for the schools and prepares merit lists for 
their appointment and promotion. It co- 
operates with the Kindergarten Training 
School, and with the Art Academv, bv 



training their students to become teachers. 
Its own students do their practice teach- 
ing in various public schools designated 
for this purpose. The Professor of Ele- 
mentary Education and his staff assist 
the Superintendent in the work of the 
elementary schools, while the Professor 




FRONT VIEW OF McMICKEN HALL 



of Secondary Education assists him in the 
secondary schools, and accredits all schools 
preparing students for the University. 
This College provides afternoon and 
Saturday classes for teachers and con- 
ducts conference seminars in professional 
subjects. It has assisted in training 810 
out of about 1450 teachers in the public 
schools. 




BURNET WOODS LAKE 

GRADUATE SCHOOL 

The faculty consists of twenty-three 
professors, six associate professors, four- 
teen assistant professors and six instruct- 
ors. 

The Graduate School comprises twenty- 
one departments in which ample facilities 
are given for graduate instruction and 
research. 

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING 

The faculty consists of thirteen pro- 
fessors, four associate professors, eleven 
assistant professors and eighteen instruct- 
ors. 

The College of Engineering offers four- 
year regular courses and five-year co- 
operative courses in civil, mechanical, 
electrical, chemical and metallurgical en- 

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gineerinor. In the co-operative courses, 
shop practice is given in alternate two- 
week periods during the eleven months 
session. In seventy-eight manufacturing 
plants, construction companies, railroads 
and city departments, students receive 
regular wages for shop work. ■ 

The Bureau of City Tests connected 
with this College analyzes, examines and 
investigates all materials submitted to it 
by the College or the purchasing agent of 
the city. 

The Engineering College co-operates 
with the engineering, waterworks, street, 
sewer and bridge departments of the city, 
in teaching and research work; and with 
the traction company, three railroad com- 
panies, the gas company and the tele- 
phone company. 

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 

The faculty consists of thirty-nine pro- 
fessors, seven associate professors, three 
adjunct professors, eighteen assistant pro- 
fessors, eight lecturers, demonstrators, and 
assistant demonstrators, fifty-three clinical 
instructors and eight assistant clinical 
instructors. 

The College of Medicine conducts the 
laboratory and museum of the Pathologic 
Institute of the City Hospital, and makes 
the diagnostic tests and examinations for 
all the hospitals and institutions of the 
city. The College maintains a dispensar3% 
with eight clinics, which serves 20,000 

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patients each year. The obstetric chnic 
co-operates with the Maternity Society; 
the orthopaedic chnic treats children and 
adults and assists patients in _ securing 
instruments and braces which will enable 
them to return to active life. The 
children's clinic maintains four branch 
stations and distributes milk, clothing and 
other supplies for infants of destitute 







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families. The CoUege co-operates with 
the Board of Health in teaching and re- 
search. The School of Nursing and 
Health of the General Hospital is con- 
ducted in connection with the Medical 
CoUege, the faculty giving the scientific 
instruction. It co-operates with the 
School of Household Arts of the Univer- 
sity. 

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The Cincinnati General Hospital, lo- 
cated on Burnet Avenue, contains 8v50 
beds and covers twenty-seven acres with 
twenty-four btiildings. Included in it are 
contagious wards, a Nurses' Training 
School for 120 ntirses, a Pathologic Insti- 
tute, and a disinfecting plant which does 
all the disinfecting for the city of Cincin- 
nati, as well as for the Hospital. Other 
hospitals co-operating with the College 
of Medicine are: the Jewish Hospital, 
located opposite the General Hospital; 
the Good Samaritan Hospital, on Clifton 
Avenue north of the Universit}^ ; and the 
German Deaconess Hospital, also ad- 
jacent to the University. These hospitals, 
"together with the Episcopal Hospital for 
Children, and the Bethesda and Christ 
Hospitals, have a total of 2,000 beds. 

COLLEGE OF COMMERCE 

The faculty consists of three professors, 
one instructor, and eight lecturers. 

The College of Commerce conducts late 
afternoon and evening classes for persons 
occupied during the day. It co-operates 
with the Chamber of Commerce and the 
banks in collecting statistics and reports. 

SCHOOL OF HOUSEHOLD ARTS 

The faculty consists of one professor, 
one assistant professor and one instructor. 

The School of Household Arts co-oper- 
ates with the public schools, the asylums, 

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man}^ public institutions and the School 
of Nursing and Health of the General 
HospitaL 

ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY 

The Observatory has a director, two 
assistants and one computer. It is chiefly 
engaged in research, but maintains a 




THE OBSERVATORY 

teaching department in a separate build- 
ing, and also furnishes accurate time, 
magnetic declination, geographical co- 
ordinates, etc., to the city, railroads and 
engineers. It issues a popular bulletin. 
The first weather map in this country was 
issued at this Observatory in 1869 by 
Professor Cleveland Abbe, director, who 
afterwards founded the United States 
Weather Bureau. 

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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 

The staff is composed of a librarian and 
three assistants. 

The University Library contains 100,000 
bound volumes. It occupies a separate 
building which also hovises the library of 
the Ohio Historical and Philosophical 
Society, 25,000 volumes, and furnishes a 




THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 

seminar room to the Department of Latin. 
It co-operates with the Cincinnati Public 
Library and branches, 500,000 volumes, 
the Mercantile Library, the Lloyd Library 
and Museum, and the libraries of the 
Astronomical Observatory, the College of 
Medicine, the Hospital, the Art Museum, 
Lane Theological Seminary and the Col- 
lege of Music. 

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GYMNASIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELD 

The staff is composed of a director and 
two assistants. 

The gymnasium co-operates with the 
public high schools, the Playground Asso- 





I NiVEKSlTY OF CINCINNATI GYMNASILAI 

ciation, the Boy Scout Association and 
other associations for the promotion of 
physical education. 

MUSEUMS 

The University Museum co-operates 
with the Cincinnati Natural History 
Society and with the Art Museum in 
Eden Park. 



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INSTITUTIONS AFFILIATED WITH 
THE UNIVERSITY 

Cincinnati Law School 

This school is the present day represent- 
ative of the Cincinnati Cohege, founded 
in 1819, and has its separate trustees and 
endowment. Requires one year of aca- 
demic work after the high school for 
entrance to the three-year course in law. 
The Legal Aid Society, an organization of 
the alumni and students of this College, 
gives legal advice and assistance to the 
poor. 

Location: Ninth St., near Race. 

Lane Theological Seminary 

Chartered in 1829; has educated many 
ministers for protestant denominations. 
Dr. L^^man Beecher was one of its early 
professors. In 1832, Katherine Beecher 
and her sister founded a school here for 
the higher education of women, in which 
household arts were taught. This was 
some five years before Mary Lyon began 
her work at Mt. Holyoke. Professor 
Calvin E. Stowe, serving in this institu- 
tion, established in Cincinnati a "College 
for Teachers." This was, however, more 
of a teacher's institute than a professional 
school. 

Location: Gilbert Ave., between Yale Ave. 

and Chapel St., Walnut Hills. 

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Hebrew Union College 

This College, opened in 1875, trains 
rabbis for Jewish congregations. Has a 
faculty of eight professors and several in- 
structors. The course covers nine years, 
four of which are spent at the University 
of Cincinnati. It has a library of 50,000 
volumes. 

Location: Clifton Ave., north of the 
University. 



Art Museum and School 

This School is conducted by the Cin- 
cinnati Art Museum Association which 




ART MUSEUM AND ART ACADEMY 
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was organized in 1880. One building is 
devoted to the art collection and another 
to the School. Drawing, painting, model- 
ing, wood carving and china painting are 
taught. The Art Academy co-operates 
with the Teachers College of the Univer- 
sity and with the public high schools in the 
training of art teachers. 

Location: Eden Park. 

Kindergarten Training School 

This School was organized in 1880; it 
has done remarkable work in introducing 
kindergartens into the Cincinnati public 
schools, and in training kindergartners to 
teach in them. The Teachers College of 
the University gives the theoretical in- 
struction and the School the practical 
training. After the kindergartens were 
established, they were in time taken over 
by the Board of Education. This is one 
of the most interesting and unique ex- 
amples of co-operation in Cincinnati. 
Location: Linton St., Vernonville. 

Public Library of Cincinnati 

This Library serves the whole of Hamil- 
ton County. It consists of the main 
library, nine branches housed in separate 
buildings, thirteen smaller branches lo- 
cated in rented houses, and twenty-two 
deposit stations in post offices and stores. 
The branch library buildings contain club 
rooms and auditoriums available for the 

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University External Courses and public 
lectures generally. Traveling libraries are 
sent to settlements, factories, telephone 
exchanges and the smaller institutions. 
The interests of school children are looked 
after by a separate department. The 
Library co-operates with the public schools 




EMERY AUDITORIUM 



and the University in training library 
workers and in giving lectures. 

Location: Vine St., between Sixth and 
Seventh . 

Other libraries are the Young Men's 
Mercantile Library, located at 414 Walnut 
Street, and the Lloyd Library and Mu- 
seum, devoted to botany, materia medica 
and pharmacy, located at Court and Plum 
Streets. Connected with the latter is a 
museum of mycology and a herbarium. 

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Natural History Society of Cincinnati 

Founded in 1870. It holds meetings 
once a month, publishes a bulletin, has a 
large museum, and circulates collections 
of birds, insects and minerals through the 
schools. 

Location: Broadway and Arch St. 

Cincinnati Zoological Garden 

The Zoological Garden, opened in 1895, 
comprises sixty acres of hill and dale. It 
co-operates actively with the public schools 
and the University in the study of natural 
history. Trees, as well as the cages, are 
labelled with both the scientific and popu- 
lar names. Children are brought to the 
Zoological Garden regularly for study. 
This Garden furnishes much valuable 
material to the various departments of 
the Universitv. 



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PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF 
CINCINNATI 

Offices of Public Schools, City Hall, Third Floor. 

Office of Business Manager, Board of Education 
Building, 511 W. Court St. 

Administration 

Board of Education, composed of seven 
members elected at large for four years, 
administers the elementary schools ; Union 
Board of High Schools, composed of four- 
teen members, administers the high schools ; 
the seven members of the Board of Edu- 
cation and seven others appointed by the 
Court of Common Pleas act as trustees 
for the Woodward and Hughes funds. 

Executive Departments 

Department of Instruction headed by 
the Superintendent of vSchools who is 
elected by the Board of Education for a 
maximum term of five years; Department 
of Business headed by the business mana- 
ager; Department of Finance headed by 
the clerk of the two Boards. 

Appointment and Promotion of Teachers 

Appointments and promotions of all 
teachers and supervisors are made by the 
Superintendent of Schools, subject to 
confirmation by the Board, from merit 
lists based upon personality, scholarship, 
professional preparation and successful 

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experience. The listing of candidates for 
elementary school positions is in charge of 
the Professor of Elementary Education in 



the College for Teachers. 

candidates for high school 

charge of the Professor 

Education in the College 

The listing of candidates 

ships and assistant principalships is m 

charge of the Assistant Superintendent. 



The listing of 
positions is in 
of Secondary 
for Teachers, 
for principal- 




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ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOL 
SYSTEM 

(Table from the Cincinnati Book, Pages 14-15) 

I. College for Teachers (Organized 
1905) 

II. High Schools: 

A. Academic Courses: 

(a) General Course (Established 1847) 

(b) Classical Course (Established 1847) 

(c) Manual Training Course (Estab- 
lished 1906) 

(d) Domestic Science Course fEstab- 
hshed 1906) 

B. Technical Courses: 

(<?) Commercial Course (Established 

1910) 
(/) Boys' Co-Operative Course (Es- 

taWished 1910) 
(g) Girls' Co-Operative Course (Es- 
tablished 1910) 
(h) Art Course (Established 1910) 
(i) Music Course (Established 1910) 
(?) Agricultural Course (Organized 

1914) 
(k) Pharmacy Course (Organizedl915) 
(/) Printing Course (Organized 1915) 

C. The "Six-and-Six" Course (Organized 

1913) 

III. Elementary Schools: 

1. General Elementary Schools (Organ- 
ized 1828) 

2. Special Elementary vSchools: 

(a) Oral School for the Deaf (Organ- 
ized 1888) 

(b) School for the Blind (Organized 
1905) 

(r) Schools for Foreigners (Organized 
1906) 

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(d) Boys' wSpecial School (Organized 
1907) 

(e) Schools for Mental Defectives (Or- 
ganized 1907) 

(/) Schools for Retarded Pupils (Or- 
ganized 1908) 

(g) Continuation School for Appren- 
tices (Organized 1909) 

(h) Schools for Exceptionally Bright 
Pupils (Organized 1910) 

(i) Elementary Industrial Schools 
(Organized 1911) 

(?) Compulsory Continuation Schools 
(Organized" 1911) 

(k) Open-Air Schools (Organized 1912) 

(/) School for Stammerers (Organized 
1912) 

3. Special Departments: 

(a) German (Organized 1840) 

(b) Penmanship (Organized 1841) 

(c) Music (Organized 1844) 

(d) Physical Training (Organized 1860) 

(e) Drawing (Organized 1864) 

(/) Manual Training (Organized 1905) 
(g) Domestic vScience (Organized 1905) 

IV. Kindergartens (Organized 1905) 

V. Evening Schools (Organized 1840) 

1. Evening Elementary Schools (Organ- 
ized 1840, for boys; organized 1855, 
for girls; discontinued 1883; re-organ- 
ized 1892) 

2. Evening High Schools: 

(a) Academic (Organized 1856; dis- 
continued 1883; re-organized 1904) 

(b) Commercial (Organized 1907) 

3. Evening Schools for Foreigners (Or- 
ganized 1905) 

4. Evening Industrial Schools (Organized 
1906) 

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5. Evening Gymnastic Classes (Organ- 
ized 1912) 

6. Evening School for Stammerers (Or- 
ganized 1912) 

VI. Svimmer Schools: 

1. Vacation Schools (Organized 1906) 

2. Summer Academic — Elementarv and 
High (Organized 1908) 

3. Playgrounds (Organized 1909) 

4. Gardening (Organized 1912) 

VII. Social Centers (Organized 1913) 
VIII. Vocation Bureau (Organized 1915) 

The High Schools 

Cincinnati has six high schools, the most 
modern and largest of which are Hughes 
and Woodward. These two schools are 
cosmopolitan in type and offer a great 
variety of work in both academic and 




HUGHES HIGH SCHOOL 
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technical courses. Co-operative courses 
(co-ordinating the school work with that of 
the shop, office, store, art museum and 
music conservatory) are in operation for 
both boys and girls. Four-year courses 
and special evening courses are offered. 

Location of Hughes: Clifton Ave. and 
McMillan St. 

Location of Woodward: Sycamore and 
Thirteenth Sts. 

In the Madisonville High School, the 
"six and six" organization is in force, and 
"general science" is offered. 

A new high school of elaborate con- 
struction and unique educational facilities 
is soon to be erected. It will be located 
in the northeastern part of the city upon 
a plot of ground covering twenty-six acres. 

The Elementary Schools 

Most of the elementary schools have the 
eight grades and kindergarten, with ample 
provision for instruction in German, 
manual training, domestic science, music, 
art and physical training. In certain 
schools, by special adaptations of the 
manual training and domestic science 
work, pre- vocational education is given. 

Schools of Interest to Visitors because 
of Special Features 

Dyer School — Upper grades, domestic 
science, manual training, kindergarten. 

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gymnasium, showers, savings bank, oppor- 
tunity classes (for retarded pupils), open 
air school on roof. 

Location: Baymiller St. at Gest. 

Cars: Sixth St., Westwood, Clark St., or 
College Hill. 

Guilford School — All grades, domestic 
science, manual training, kindergarten, 
gymnasium, showers, plunge, orchestra, 
dental clinic, open air room, roof play- 
ground, pre-vocational classes, depart- 
mental plan in seventh and eighth grades. 

Location: Fourth, Iota and Arch Sts. 

Cars: East End or Delta Ave. to Broadway, 
then half block east. 

Old Guilford School — Contains school 
for mental defectives, vocation bureau, 
work certificate office, placement office, 
psychological laboratory, compulsory con- 
tinuation classes. 

Location: Sycamore St., between Fourth and 

Fifth, a short walk from Fountain 

Square. 

Oyler School — All grades, domestic sci- 
ence, manual training, kindergarten, gym- 
nasium, pre-vocational classes. 

Location: Burns and Stabler Sts. 

Cars: Elberon, Sedamsville or Warsaw. 

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Peaslee School — All grades, domestic 
science, manual training, kindergarten, 
gymnasium, departmental plan in seventh 
and eighth grades, oral school for deaf. 

Location: Woodward St., near Main. 

Cars: Auburn Ave., Clifton- Ludlow or 
McMicken-Main. 

Rothenburg School — All grades, domestic 
science, manual training, kindergarten, 
gymnasium, showers, plunge, roof play- 
ground, pre- vocational work, departmen- 
tal plan in seventh and eighth grades. 

Location: Main St. and E. Clifton Ave. 

Cars: Clifton- Ludlow, McMicken-Main or 
Third and Fifth. 

Sands School — All grades, domestic sci- 
ence, manual training, kindergarten, gym- 
nasium, showers, plunges, school for 
blind. 

Location: Freeman Ave. and Poplar St. 

Cars: Coleroin Ave. or Clark St. 



Washinfjon School — All grades, domes- 
tic science, manual training, kindergarten, 
gymnasium, showers, dental clinic, mov- 
ing picture apparatus, industrial classes, 
departmental plan in fifth, sixth, seventh 
and eighth grades. 

Location: Hopple St., near Colerain Ave. 

Cars: Colerain Ave. or Clark St. 

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Sixth District School — Grades one to 
seven, kindergarten, gymnasium, showers, 
dental clinic, special classes for foreigners, 
medical clinic, lunch room. 

Location: Elm and Odeon Sts. 

Cars: Clifton-Elm, Colerain J{ve. or 
McMicken- Elm . 



Douglass School (For Colored Pupils) — 
All grades, domestic science, manual 
training, kindergarten, lunch room, branch 
library, gymnasium, showers, pre-voca- 
tional work. 

Location: Alms Place and- Chapel St. 

Car: Chapel St. 



The New Bloom School — To be occu- 
pied immediateh^ after the Thanksgiving 
recess. Organized as a six-grade elemen- 
tary school with a four-grade (grades 
seven to ten) junior high school. Special 
emphasis on pre-vocational industrial edu- 
cation. 

Location: Baymiller, Dayton and Bank Sts. 

Cars: John St. or Colerain Ave. 



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ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL 
ACTIVITIES 

Home and School Gardens 

Under a superintendent and assistant; 
thirty-five teachers employed in 1914 to 
care for home and school gardens of about 
9,000 children; 4,850 certificates awarded 
to children completing a satisfactory piece 
of work. Garden exhibit held at the close 
of each season; 1800 entries representing 
1200 children competitors. 

School Playgrounds 

Twenty-four schools have fair equip- 
ment, eight are fully equipped. School 
playgrounds in co-operation with the 
Park Department. (See Park Depart- 
ment.) 




FUBLIC PARK CONCERT 
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Social Centers 

A good example at the Sands vSchool. 
Center for boys and girls at the new 
Guilford School. The Chase social center 
is for later adolescents. The Lincoln and 
Garfield social centers provide for com- 
munity development, lectures and social 
entertainments. Street boys meet four 
nights a week in the gymnasium of the 
Peaslee School. 

Truancy Department 

In charge of a chief truant officer and 
five assistants. The work consists not 
only in securing regular school attend- 
ance, but in enforcing the child labor law; 
the department co-operates with the Court 
of Domestic Relations, which includes the 
Juvenile Court, the Juvenile Protective 
Association, and various charitable and 
philanthropic societies. 

Vocation Bureau 

This Bureau examines children, issues 
work certificates, co-operates in enforcing 
the child labor law, and is making a 
vocation survey of the industries of the 
city. Office and laboratory for mental 
and physical examinations in the old 
Guilford School. The Bureau is at work 
on a study of 1,000 working children who 
have been examined from year to year for 
four years. Industrial records are kept, 
the homes of the children are visited, and 

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the results compared with the records of 
a corresponding number of children re- 
maining in school. This Bureau co- 
operates with the Schmidlapp Bureau, a 
private agency for studying the con- 
ditions of the working girl. 



Mouth Hygiene 

A good example of a dental clinic at the 
new Guilford School. Over 100 schools 
visited, 52,000 children examined and 
44,000 treated in 1914. Talks to teachers 
and pupils; co-operation with the free 
dental clinic societv. 



School Hygiene 

Staff of sixteen physicians, fourteen 
nurses, seven dentists and two clinical 
assistants. Vaccination of school children 
compulsory; medical inspection of teach- 
ers and janitors in school buildings as well 
as of children. Co-operates with the 
Anti-Tuberculosis League, the Nursing 
Service Committee of the American Red 
Cross, the Fresh Air Society and the 
Medical College of the University. Classes 
in Woodward High School on home 
nursing and first aid under the supervision 
of the Nursing Service Committee as- 
sisted by the School of Nursing and Health 
of the Hospital. (See under Medical 
College and Hospital.) 

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Little Mothers' League 

This League is composed of 1200 girls 
from the higher grades who are studying 
the hygiene of the home and the care of 
infants in co-operation with the Health 
Department and the Domestic Science 
Department of the schools. 

A Bureau of Child Welfare examines 
children under school age whose condition 
might handicap them. It also co-operates 
with the Board of Health, Children's 
Clinic of the Medical College and the 
Hospital. 



PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN CINCINNATI 
ACCREDITED TO THE UNIVER- 
SITY OF CINCINNATI 

Franklin School, 2833 May St., Walnut 
Hills; University School, Blair Ave., 
Avondale; Bartholomew-Clifton School, 
504 Evanswood, Clifton; College Prepara- 
tory School for Girls, Madison Road 
opposite Fairfield Ave.; Oakhurst Col- 
legiate School for Girls, 724 Oak St.; and 
the Ohio Military Institute, 5553 Belmont 
Ave., College Hih. These schools offer 
courses valuable to teachers. 



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OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITU- 
TIONS 

Ohio Mechanics Institute 

This Institute is located in a handsome 
building at the corner of Walnut and 
Canal Streets; established in 1829 to pro- 
mote "the best interests of the mechanics, 




MECHANICS INSTITUTE 

manufacturers and artisans by the more 
general diffusion of useful knowledge 
among them." It has four departments, 
namely, Institute of Applied Arts, the 
Timothy C. Day Technical Library, 
Emery Auditorium and the Industrial 
Museum. The Institute of Applied Arts 
has schools of mechanics and electricity, 
architecture, industrial art and design, 
chemistry, lithography, household arts 
and science, and special trades. These 
schools are open both day and evening. 

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College of Music of Cincinnati 

This College, founded by Theodore 
Thomas, adjoins Music Hall, of which it 
is essentially a part. Both the College 
building and Music Hall were built and 
endowed by Mr. Reuben R. vSpringer and 




MUSIC HALL 



other benevolent citizens. The object of 
the College is to "educate the student of 
music upon a well-regulated and scientific 
plan." It co-operates with the Board of 
Education in training music supervisors 
for the public schools. 

Location: Elm St., adjoining Music Hall. 

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Conservatory of Music 

This institution has for many years 
worked in close co-operation with the 
public schools of the city, and has pro- 
vided musical programs for special occa- 
sions in kindergartens, day and night 
schools, and social centers. The genuine 
desire of the people to hear good music is 
proved by the large audiences attending 
these concerts. 

Location: Highland Ave. and Oak St. 

Ohio College of Dental Surgery 

This College, established in 1845, was 
the first dental school in the AVest. 

Location: Seventh and Mound Sts. 

Eclectic Medical College 

This College, founded in 1845, is the 
oldest eclectic medical school in the 
United States. 

Location: 630 IF. Sixth St. 

Young Men's Christian Association 

This Association conducts day and 
evening classes in general educational, 
vocational and professional subjects. It 
gives courses in law, salesmanship and 
advertising, and conducts an automobile 
school. 

Location: Seventh and Walnut Sts. 

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Schmidlapp Bureau for Women 
and Girls 

This Bureau was founded and endowed 
with $250,000 by Mr. Jacob G. Schmid- 
lapp. Its purpose, in the words of the 
founder, is "to ennoble, to uplift and 
to strengthen the lives of young women 
who are compelled to be self-sup- 
porting." Carrying out the beneficent 
intentions of the founder, the Bureau 
assists girls between the ages of fourteen 
and twenty-five, residents of Hamilton 
County, to get an education and fit them- 
selves for service. It also has a placement 
department whose aim is to fit the right 
girl to the right place. The work of this 
department is restricted to the industrial 
field. The Bureau also co-operates with 
the Bureau of Vocational vService of the 
public school system. (See Vocation Bu- 
reau.) 

Location: Union Tnisi Buildinc. 



Cincinnati Woman's Club 

This Club has departments of art, 
music, home economics, and education, 
each having its own officers and time of 
meeting; it also conducts a library and a 
lecture department. 

Location: 643 Oak St. 



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DEPARTMENTS OF THE CITY OF 
CINCINNATI 

Parks and Playgrounds 

The parks and playgrounds are ad- 
ministered by a Park Commission of three 
citizens appointed by the Mayor. A 
comprehensive plan for the development 
of the park and playground system in 




WASHINGTON PARK 

Cincinnati was made in 1906 by an expert 
landscape architect, and this plan has 
been followed in planning the purchase of 
territory and the establishment of new 
parks and playgrounds. The Park Com- 
mission arranges for concerts in the parks, 
modern equipment of playgrounds, im- 
provement of roadways connecting parks, 
and the reforesting of properties not in good 

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condition. The principal parks are Bur- 
net Woods, Eden Park, Ault Park, Mt. 
Echo Park and Mt. Storm Park. Model 
playgrounds are the Hunt Street Play- 
ground opposite Eden Park; the Sinton, 
Sixth and Mound; Lytle Park, at the east 
end of Fourth St., and In wood Park, on 
upper Vine St., near Hollister. In 1915, 
there were twenty-one park playgrounds 
in operation. 

Department of Charities and Corrections 

The chief work of this department is in 
connection with the following municipal 
institutions: House of Refuge (Glendale 
Farm for Boys and Opportunity Farm for 
Girls), take Glendale car; City Infirmary 
(Hart well) ; City Hospital — Social Service 
Department, interesting display of handi- 
craft work made by patients; Tuberculosis 
vSanitorium (in course of construction. 
Lick Run, Price Hill) ; Work House 
(Colerain Ave.) ; Municipal Lodging and 
Bath House (323 Hammond St.) 

Fire Department 

The Combination Fire House, Seventh 
and Sycamore Sts., is a typical plant. 

Police Department 

A model police station is the Second 
District Police Station, Broadway be- 
tween Third and Fourth Sts. 




BRIDGE IN EDEN PARK 



Waterworks Department 

The chief waterworks are located at 
California, Ohio. The pumping, settling 
and filtration plants are models of their 
kind and worth inspection. From the 
plants the water comes down by gravity 
to East End Avenue, where it is pumped 
over the citv. 



PRIVATE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 

A Council of Social Agencies has been 
organized which is "a federation of the 
charitable, civic, philanthropic and public 
agencies of Greater Cincinnati." Eighty 
agencies are represented in this Council. 
Its purpose is "to promote efficiency in the 
social work of Cincinnati." 

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The Associated Charities, 304 Broad- 
way, maintains a labor yard for men and a 
workroom for women. It also grants re- 
lief in the homes of the applicants. 

The Union Bethel Settlement, 501 E. 
Third St., conducts a nursery, clinic, 
sewing school, gymnasium classes, music 
classes, clubs for boys, girls, men and 
women. 

Anna Louise Inn, Third and Lytic Sts., 
is a hotel for self-supporting young women. 
It is conducted under the auspices of the 
Union Bethel. 

The L. B. Harrison Hotel for Young 
Men, 540 W. Seventh St., is a hotel for 
young men between the ages of sixteen 
and twentv-five. 



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